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Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A visual exploration of the "Titanic," providing information about its construction, decoration, captain and crew, passengers, the disaster that occurred during the luxury liner's maiden voyage in 1911, and the search and discovery of the wreck.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic reputation. The Bermuda Triangle became famous for making boats and ships vanish, and for snatching planes right out of the sky. But are these stories true? And if...
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, stunning archival material, and vivid storytelling, Shipwrecked! dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A thrilling new true adventure of deep-sea diving and danger, historic mystery and suspense. Two men, John Chatterton and John Mattera, are determined to find the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister, even though finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. If Chatterton and Mattera succeed, they will make history; it will be the second time ever that a pirate ship has been discovered and positively identified....
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hope doesn't want to listen to her father's stories about his voyages at sea. SHe wants to be part of those stories! Now's her chance.... She will stow away on Papa's ship. But look! the wind has picked up, and the sky is darkening. Batten down the hatches! Could there be such a thing as an adventure that is too exciting? Join high-spirited Hope on a trip of alifetime in this exquisitely illustrated picture book that also captures the love between...
48) The Titanic
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth behind the sinking of the Titanic with beloved educator/author Kate Messner. The fun mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels make this perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. On April 15, 1912 an "unsinkable" ship called the Titanic unexpectedly hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Right? Wrong! Nobody was really talking about the...
49) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 13
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is the suspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2,500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaster took more passenger lives than theTitanic and stands today as the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes. Capsized! details the events leading up to the fateful day of the disaster and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing. Kids follow the lives of workers and their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"May 2013: Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer's-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Unravel the mysteries of an extraordinary underwater world in this official Minecraft novel! When three kids discover a mystery in an abandoned Minecraft server, they must race against the clock to uncover its secrets. When three teenagers--Jake Thomas, Emily Quesada, and Thanh Vuong--are forced to clean up and sort through the items in their beloved community center before a developer demolishes the building, they discover an odd Minecraft server...
Author
Language
English
Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years....
Author
Series
Warren the 13th volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After the Warren Hotel is shipwrecked on a strange island on his thirteenth birthday, Warren and his friends must solve a series of riddles to rescue Sketchy from a travelling circus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
Author
Publisher
Centennial Books, an imprint of Centennial Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"More than one hundred years after the "unsinkable" Titanic sunk after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the tragedy continues to haunt us. That's partly thanks to the movies--notably James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster, Titanic--that have turned the story into a sort of modern myth. In fact, when it comes to the events of April 15, 1912, untangling fact from fiction has become increasingly difficult. Was the captain drunk? Was the ship...
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